Crowd-Pleasing Pea Salad

Use canned sweet peas in this pea salad recipe with red onion, Cheddar cheese, and mayonnaise.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Total Time: 15 mins
• Calories: 247 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• ½ cup mayonnaise, or to taste
• ⅓ cup diced red onion
• 2 (15 ounce) cans sweet peas, drained
• ¼ pound sharp Cheddar cheese

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Grate Cheddar cheese into a bowl and refrigerate while draining peas and dicing onion to keep cheese shreds from sticking together.

Step 2

Mix cheese, peas, onion, mayonnaise, sugar, salt, and pepper together in a bowl.

Step 3

Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour to overnight.